Production Supervisor(s)
MRINetwork · Wakefield, NE
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Production
- Travel
- Includes overnights
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A supervisor production role at MRINetwork (industrial) in Wakefield, NE.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required
- Day to day
- overnight travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Supervisor roles in the US: typical posted base $76k–$102k.
Median of the low and high ends of 250 live postings that list pay, out of 930 production supervisor openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Nebraska plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 15 other live production postings in Nebraska.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 100%
- EHS / safety 31%
- Lean 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at MRINetwork
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
Full description from MRINetworkAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Requirements
- ✓Bachelors degree preferred, not required. Equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.
- ✓3 + years of supervisory experience.
- ✓Food manufacturing experience preferred, but will consider any manufacturing background.
- ✓Bilingual in Spanish a plus.
- ✓Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals in English.
Key Responsibilities/Job Duties
- ◆Produces the highest quality product at the lowest possible cost consistent with good manufacturing practices.
- ◆Provides a safe work environment for all personnel.
- ◆Recognizes and takes steps to resolve operating problems in order to minimize their impact on the operations.
- ◆Requests and directs services of maintenance, sanitation and other personnel as necessary to achieve the desired level and quality of production, sanitation, safety and warehouse services.
- ◆Cooperates with all departments to assure a coordinated work relationship exists at all times.
- ◆Responsible for ingredient usage and all other department costs.
- ◆Keeps accurate and up-to-date records (i.e. timecards, downtime records, absentee records, etc.).
- ◆Enforces company policies in a fair and consistent manner.
- ◆Encourages suggestions from employees which will improve production, quality, safety and/or control costs of production.
- ◆Keeps management informed on operating and/or employee problems, quality, safety and/or control costs of production.
- ◆Maintains consistent communications and monthly department meetings.
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Production Supervisor
Our Wakefield, NE food manufacturing client is looking to hire a Production Supervisor to their both their 2nd shift and overnight shift team. The Production Supervisor plans, directs and coordinates the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing food products in accordance with safety, cost, quality and quantity specifications.
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